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"en.20081216.31.2-247"2
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"Mr President, rather like Mr Schulz, I was concerned at the beginning of this presidency at the slowness to react to the looming financial crisis. I think Europe as a whole was guilty of complacency in thinking that this was not our problem, but an American problem.
However, since that financial tsunami has hit us, I welcome the response we have had; I welcome the leadership we have had from my own Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and from President Sarkozy.
What we have learned is that Europe stands or falls together. If we act individually we are lost, and events have proved that. We are in a situation we have never been in before, and that is why I welcome the dynamic leadership we have had, in contrast with Mr Kirkhope’s party, whose members, like rabbits paralysed in the headlights, think that doing nothing is the only solution to our great crisis.
I note that President Sarkozy talked about ‘our friends, the Americans’. The West as a whole faces a huge crisis. We can only come out of it if we make working together a priority. So we must emphasise the importance of Europe’s working with the new administration in January, so that we have a united front to the great challenges such as climate change and the financial crisis."@en1
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